Timeline of snooker on UK television information

This is a timeline of the notable events in the televising of snooker in the United Kingdom. 1937 14 April and 16 April – An exhibition match between...

a timeline of the history of darts on television in the UK. 1972 Ten years after darts first appeared on British television when Westward Television broadcast...

Snooker (pronounced UK: /ˈsnuːkər/ SNOO-kər, US: /ˈsnʊkər/ SNUUK-ər) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth...

professional snooker player who is currently a commentator, DJ, electronic musician and author. He is best known for dominating professional snooker during...

2010) was a Northern Irish professional snooker player and a two-time world champion who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the sport's...

This is a timeline of the history of Sky Sports. 1989 5 February – Sky Television launches at 6.00pm. The channel line-up consists of a sports channel...

July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has...

1946) is an English snooker commentator and former professional snooker player. Virgo won four professional titles, including the 1979 UK Championship, the...

This is a timeline of the history of BBC Sport. 1936 2 November – The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra...

and the UK Championship in 1982, completing snooker's Triple Crown. Griffiths was runner-up at the Masters three times and reached the final of the 1989...

retired professional billiards and snooker player. He was the second player to make an official maximum break in snooker, achieving this in an exhibition...

professional snooker player who was World Snooker Champion in 1997. In addition to his ongoing playing career, he works as a regular commentator and pundit on televised...

retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980...

Welsh professional snooker player. He turned professional in 1967 and dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning the World Snooker Championship six times...

English former professional snooker player and television personality. He was a familiar face on the professional snooker circuit during the late 1980s...

This is a timeline of sports channels in the UK other than Sky Sports, BT Sport and Premier Sports/FreeSports. The timeline also includes sports events...

Plaza Snooker Club on the Barbican of his home town. Currently Pinhey works and plays for the Legends Lounge within St Budeaux. He made his television debut...

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The 1976 World Snooker Championship (officially known as the 1976 Embassy World Snooker Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that...

This is a timeline of the history of BBC Two. The Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting observed that ITV lacked any culturally relevant programming...

This is a timeline of the history of ITV Sport, provider of sports coverage for the British ITV network and ITV Digital Channels. 1955 22 September –...

Everton began commentating on snooker for BBC radio in 1972 and for BBC Television from 1978 until 2010. In the snooker boom years of the 1980s, he commentated...

Taylor featured on the music single called "Snooker Loopy". The song spent 11 weeks in the UK Singles Chart in 1986, reaching a peak of sixth. Taylor was...

be on ITV3 and ITVX. This mostly involves Snooker, Darts and ITV Racing. The director of ITV Sport is Niall Sloane, who reports to ITV's director of television...

The 1973 World Snooker Championship (also known as the 1973 Park Drive World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a snooker tournament that...

professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport and widely regarded as the greatest Asian player of all time...

attacking snooker in his early career, but he made more use of safety tactics in the 1970s. Pulman became a television commentator towards the end of his playing...